I thought I would post a couple things that have been on my mind lately, things that have helped me get that all important right perspective as I fumble (flit? stagger? dream-walk?) through days with a house full of small kids. I know I am not the only one here who is in that […]

After four years in business, we have decided to close our downtown shop La Bella Vita. When we first opened, I was seven months pregnant with Lina, and we were well aware that having a business that was dependent on me (it is not my husband who loves to work with flowers after all) could […]

When my husband and I first got married, we created and instituted our own little set of rules for communication. These were like training wheels for us, and we were pretty faithful at observing them. I am convinced that God used our little “rules” to keep us on track those first few years of marriage. […]

Over the years I’ve seen lots of different programs for reading your Bible, and they are all good. Some are charts with a little square for each chapter to check off, some have a required number of chapters a day, and others have you skipping around all over the place. Whatever gets God’s people reading […]

Winter is wearing on. Christmas is over, but it’s still cold outside. The closets are overflowing with things for the discard pile. The pantry has sticky honey circles on the second shelf up. The kids are fussing at each other.  It’s too cold to play outside. Or, if the kids are grown and married, they’ve […]

Thanks to all the scads of you who entered! Just for the fun of the thing we got a charming porter at Christ Church to officiate for us on the drawing. And hooray for Tonya!